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According to the board, it requested reports for several current investigations but police are not giving them the reports. The board also said it has submitted several requests for public records; all of them have been denied.

Police say they can not release the records because all the cases are pending.

“It’s terribly frustrating,” William Weeden of the Community Oversight Board said. “One of our responsibilities is to do a thorough investigation and we are unable to do a thorough investigation unless we have everything we need, one of those being police reports.”